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Heres the situation.
I've been here for a couple years now. My rent is always paid on time. I'm not causing any damage to the building or the parking area assigned to my unit. The LL and I have allways had a good repore. NEVER any issues at all. But I am here on a month to month, no lease.
Earlier this year the LL and I were talking and I shared with him my general plan of being out of debt and closing the business around the end of the year. At that time he said that if that was my plan that he would not raise the rent in an effort to help me with my goal. We have talked from time to time since then and he has been kept up to date on my progress towards meeting the end of the year goal.
Skip forward to just a couple months ago. T-mobile has commited to installing another cell tower on the property. It will be the second tower on this lot. The LL told us all that the new tower will pay well and it would be unlikely that he will have to raise anybody's rent.
Skip forward to yesterday. He comes in to collect the rent and starts beating around the bush as to how he has someone who needs to relocate his business and how my rent hasn't been raised in a while and how he is so undermarket with my rent and how I told him that I wanted to gone by the first of the year. BLA BLA BLA. This new tennant is willing to pay 100% MORE than I'm paying but has to have a commitment from my LL by the end of the year. I tell him that I am not ready to close just yet and would likely need another four to six months before being ready to leave. My LL says he doesn't want to lose the perspective tennant and needs a commitment from me. He also states that if I decide to stay he'll have to raise my rent (no one else in the complex, just mine) to match what this other guy is willing to pay.
I don't mind commiting to a move out date as long as I have some say in when that date is. And I'll suffer a raise in the rent if it were reasonable. I don't feel that a 100% raise is reasonable if I'm the only one getting the increase.
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